2016 Competition Entrants

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#GIFingAround is a cross-platform party game in which players react to statements with animated GIFs in a battle for sweet, sweet Karma Points! Search, collect and utilize all your GIFs and laugh with your friends while applying your winnings to troll or alter your GIFs!

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Two Dimensions is a isometric runner adventure.
Control two characters simultaneously.
Travel across 32 levels in the dangerous world of Flectia.
Pick up coins and use impressive Power-Ups.
Can collect gems to unlock bonus levels.
Will fight mighty Bosses on your way to rescue Storm.

Two Dimensions is influenced by the arcade games of the 80's and 90's.
Contrary to the procedurally generated levels in the endless runner genre, the levels are handcrafted with a carefully tweaked difficulty curve. The art follows a cartoon style that sets a light tone for its fantasy world and visually supports the gameplay.

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...&maybetheywontkillyou is a performative empathy experience about being poor and Black in America. Participants must journey to the local corner store in their own neighborhood while deflecting various micro-aggressions as well as harassment by law enforcement. Choose to speak out or remain silent and deal with the consequences of your choices.

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[08:46] is a narrative driven experience which makes you embody an office worker in the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the 9/11 events, emphasizing the victims' point of view.

Based on countless hours of research in order to try to properly recreate the atmosphere and dynamics within the top floors of the towers, [08:46] was designed and developed as a school project during three months by a six members team, working in close collaboration with two actors for mocap and voice acting.

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In this game the player comes to Cachiche, Peru, to spend their nights looking for ghosts to photograph, and ends up with an exquisite-corpse style narrative as they show their photos to people in town who spin stories about what they see in them. They also discover that their camera is not just a passive recorder, but that its act of observation changes the environment.

This project is an impressionistic fictional game that began as a documentary on a small town in Peru. Two summers ago I stayed with a brujo (could be loosely translated as sorcerer, traditional healer...) in a suburb called Cachiche, which is famous for being founded by witches who were fleeing the Peruvian Inquisition. There are many people there who are descendants of witches and also a number of contemporary ghost stories. I told people I was doing a videogame documentary and did some interviews, taking audiovisual documentation.

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2 Puzzled 2 Solve is a Metroidvania game with a unique twist: the player controls both their character and the world they move through. The player navigates through levels from point A to B by jumping around in platform mode and shifting and rotating the level as a sliding puzzle in puzzle mode. All levels are connected with each other through an overworld where players gain access to new levels and progress through the game by collecting items and learning new things about the game mechanics.

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20XX is a co-op-friendly roguelite that plays like Mega Man X. Explore procedurally generated levels, collect new weapons and abilities, purchase upgrades, and battle mighty bosses in the name of saving the human race maybe!

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The world of the numbers is completely out of balance! In his arrogance, 9 has decided that he doesn't need any of the other digits and has turned them into statues. But he has forgotten about 0. It's literally zero to hero in this bizarre puzzle platforming adventure!

Play as 0 and journey to the minds' of the petrified numbers to become strong enough to take down 9. With every mind you travel through you collect a +1 to increase your number, and with it your number of jumps. Use this simple concept of multiple jumps to complete increasingly challenging levels that any platforming fan will love.

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7 Pegs Down is a fast paced action game where you play with an opponent trying to shoot out their seven pegs before they put you down. The rules are simple; place your seven pegs anywhere on your side of the court, when you are ready - begin shooting.
7 Pegs Down originated from the idea of making multiplayer shooters easy and approachable for everyone. Introducing players to a system, with a few simple rules and the simplicity of controls makes players comfortably curious. Random distribution of reload time builds the anticipation giving players a hint of a possibility to strategize and then it is all about is high energy, screams, chaos, lots of fun & Rematch!

The game is fully accessible to visually impaired people, and is aimed at anyone who's eager for an original, immersive sensory experience through a ground-breaking video game. And because the player is the character, it will help raise public awareness of this kind of disability.

Your eyes will be of no help.
So close them, sharpen your hearing and your blade…
And embark on an epic, perilous rite of passage.

This type of hack-and-slash game, with a heroic-fantasy flavour, harnesses the innovative technology of binaural sound, which delivers a gripping 3D soundscape and brings characters and actions vividly to life around the player – as if they were actually in the game!

How do you play?

Put on your headphones and use your smartphone's touchscreen like a joystick:

- to move around freely;
- to fight using your sword;
- to defend yourself and protect yourself with your shield;
- to repel your enemies and perform combos!

Live the adventures of Edward Blake, the famous blind knight! Guided by your daughter Louise, you must find your way and avoid the many traps that lie in store in the High Castle Kingdom, while confronting dangerous enemies!

The game was co-created thanks to support from a community of fans who helped with the crowdfunding campaign (www.ulule.com/a-blind-legend), in a co-production with France Culture, a Radio France station and with support of CNC, Rhône-Alpes Region and Humanis-CCAH.

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Play as a crow in this challenging twin-stick shooter set in a grim world cursed by demons and ghouls. This game utilizes real-world physics, which makes it more difficult than other typical shmups/shooters. Rescue other crows from cages in order to proceed. Earn other weapons and power-ups for different strategies.

Typical shmups/shooters have rigid bodies (spaceships, robots, etc). We wanted to have an organic approach in this game, complete with dead, rag-dolling bodies. Described by many as "lovely" and "beautiful".

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What if videogames could allow us to live complex human relationships? That's what we're trying to do with a A Street Story: a game which gameplay is as simple as his story his complex.
The player is a young arab mobster from the Paris banlieue mixed in a dark plot involving gansters, cops and terrorists. Depending on the choices made by the player while interactively dialoguing with NPCs the outcome of the story will change.
Our objective is to achieve an authentic interactive dramaturgy: the player can choose every line of dialog from the main character and the story is totally character-driven, without incredible twists or big blockbusters action scenes.

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A Tofu Tail is a fairy tale of a Mr. Tofu, a man-turned-tofu by a deceptive kitsune, racing through the vivid, puzzle-filled maze realms of the foxes in search of a way to break his curse. It has a whimsical story heavily influenced by Japanese folklore, has been crafted with a unique and completely hand-drawn art style and an imaginative and emotional chiptune/rock-mix soundtrack to support the narrative.

A Tofu Tail is an aesthetically and story-driven puzzle game features addictively simple color-maze-based gameplay with additional challenges and narrative in each new realm. The story mode establishes the core color-change mechanic and introduces additional themed mechanics along the way, eventually leading to synergistic puzzles designed to build on what was learned up to that point. Freeplay is an extension of the core color-change mechanic, providing procedurally-generated levels for added replayability.

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A.Way is a short "texture interactive novel" about Ayvee and her struggle in finding a way to leave behind the security of everyday things for following a personal process of self discovery.The visual art walks the player while reading the story and it is an exploration of textures and "optical/cinetic" effects for creating immersive and meaningful experiences. Meanwhile the modality in which not binary text choices are presented explores the different ways we can create sense of agency and emotional mood in players.

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Playing as Alice, you explore a deserted vessel in the past, present and future. Your hands are portals to different times, allowing you to affect the environment in time-bending ways. As you progress, your vision of the future becomes increasingly bleak.

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Abysm is a single-player pixelated adventure game. Currently being developed by Hullabaloo Entertainment Studios, this dark fantasy story puts the player in the role of Rauvine, a young man on a quest to revive a long lost land and become closer to his heritage.

Armed with a variety of weapons and abilities, Rauvine must traverse a labyrinth of dungeons, palaces, and strange ominous lands. All the while, he is faced by formidable foes of all kinds; from eldritch monsters to legions of armored soldiers. Slowly a larger tale unfolds, and Rauvine soon finds himself in the middle of something much greater than he ever imagined.

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ACTION GRID is a turn-based strategy game that brings the best aspects of physical board games into an exciting digital space. The game takes place on a grid-based game board, with various types of spaces that the players can land on. Four participating players are represented by selectable character tokens on one end of the game board. Players gain victory points by moving the most number of spaces, dealing the most damage by attacking other players, reaching the end space first, and picking up collectable gems. The player with the most victory points after 10 turns (or all players have finished) wins!

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Your fighter can power its engines or its weapons, but not both at once. Fly without defense at breakneck speeds to build power, then throw yourself skyward, cut the engines, and attack while in free-fall.

The game is designed with a heavy emphasis on extremely tight controls and split-second risk vs reward decisions — your greatest victories will be achieved through reckless self-endangerment.

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Enjoy all the thrills and excitement of space exploration on a budget? Uexplore brings you affordable space adventures without compromising comfort, fun and safety. Our newest Small Craft (TM) line with its intuitive and simple Heads Down Display technology offers all the functionality and flexibility of the Heads Up Displays installed in more expensive space ships, but at a fraction of the price.

Affordable Space Adventures is a Wii U game that uses the secondary screen on the GamePad as an interface to all the internal systems of the craft. Play alone or fly in a crew with your friends in local co-op.

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Agenda is a strategy simulation game in which the player controls a world-wide independent agency with a set goal of world domination. Try to claim your global influence through the power of your allies and covert operations such as assassinations, bribery or fraud.

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Agent A is a spy themed puzzle game for Smartphones, Tablets and erm… Shoephones?! Your mission (should you choose to accept of course) is to infiltrate enemy spy Ruby La Rouge's secret hideaway and catch her! Uncover a stylish 60s themed world full of hidden contraptions and clever logic based puzzles. Oh and do be careful, Miss La Rouge has a taste for dismissing agents such as yourself…

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Agona is a unique tic tac toe inspired fairy tale that tells the story of a rising dragon lord. With beautiful visuals, real-time fighting mechanics and an extraordinary dynamic gameplay, it is a two player game that will set you playing against other friends or AI for endless hours of fun.

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AIPD by Blazing Badger is a top-down coop twinstick shooter, where the player can design his own game modes by combining game mechanic modules. The visual style of AIPD is a hommage to 80's neon art styles, pioneered by games like Minestorm on the Vectrex console system or feature films like Tron.

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Alea is a beautiful rythym game that is addictive and hypnotic. The goal of the game is for the player to maintain accuracy of the repeating sequence of notes, while taking in the action of the surrounding environment. Neither is crucial for a victory however; we are all winners in the grand miracle that is life.

Alea was inspired by hiking in Muir woods park in San Fransisco and the Canadian Pacific Northwest.
Made almost entirely out of 2D sprites, Paloma Dawkins (Palgal) uses camera movement to animate sequencial growth and change of plants in different environmental climates. Cale Bradbury (netgrind) does shader/programming magic on the sprites to give them a life beyond their initial stillness. Caila Thompson (Mozart Sister) brings the forest into sound with a tight rythym and beautiful notes.

Eh Canadian collaboration initially made for Fantastic Fest 2015 with an alternative controller made of moss. We are building other types of plant based controllers for future events.

Inside the ARKIV:
WHO was JUNKO JUNSUI and WHAT really happened to THE SISTERHOOD of "BLACK WIDOWS"?
WHAT is ROSTEC and WHY has ROSKOMNADZOR not yet built a GREAT FIREWALL of RUSSIA?
WHY does SOCIAL MEDIA not reach its TRUE POTENTIAL until your CITY SQUARE is on FIRE?
HOW can TECH STARTUPS that did not exist a few years ago now be VALUED IN THE BILLIONS?
WHEN the NEW REALITY arrives, will your HAPLOGROUP or GENDER be needed?

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Save the neighborhood from the alien summoned undead in true retro platforming style.

Alien Undead Armageddon is a retro platformer combining the best of platformer games from the 80s, 90s, and today. Aliens have crash landed on earth. It's up to AJ, and his inventor genius father to defeat them and save the neighborhood, and earth! Battle a variety of enemies, use high tech weapons, master speed levels, and defeat bosses! It's all there.

Alien Undead Armageddon features include:

- 4 Unique stages each with new enemies, challenges and bosses.
- Over 36 levels with varying game play and goals. Speed levels, bosses, puzzles, and action.
- Support for Android Tablets, Mac, Windows, and Linux PCs.
- Alien Undead Armageddon will be released for Android in the Google Play store fall 2015, and targeting a greenlight launch on Steam Winter 2015/2016.

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The clock is ticking! You have mere minutes to get in, steal what you can, and get out. But be careful, your cohort may not have your best interest at heart. You all know there isn't enough money to go around, but who will turn first?
ALL 4-1 is a 4-player online bank heist game centered around the element of simultaneous cooperation and competition of the four players who must together attain a certain minimum amount of money, while still striving to have more money than their "allies".
The players move around a darkened bank vault with a top-down perspective, collecting all the money they can find, setting traps for their enemies, but working with them to open more complicated sections of the vault.

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Alone With You is a sci-fi game for people who love adventure, exploring and maybe even a little romance.

You play the sole remaining member of a doomed terraforming colony. Your planet will crumble and implode in less than a month, and you must use your remaining time to try to escape. The catch? There is only one escape pod left, and it isn't functioning. Even worse, the only people who specialized in its systems are all dead from the colony's mysterious failure. But the colony's AI is still with you, and together you plan to get yourselves off the planet—by recreating those key colony members and learning how to fix the ship, so you can both flee to safety.

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Alpha One is a 2D top-down space shooter that uses RPG and narrative elements to guide the player through the game. You pilot a spacecraft, shooting rocks with a mining tool to gather resources to sell. The player utilizes a randomized "galactic map" creating a pseudo open-world where the player can travel to different areas at any time. After the player invents FTL travel the player's home station is blockaded with strange looking asteroids. Before long the player finds themselves hopelessly out matched and must invent new technologies to defend the human race from being enslaved!

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Alto's Adventure is an endless snowboarding odyssey, set against a beautiful and ever changing alpine landscape. The game features fluid physics-based movement, procedurally generated terrain and stunning dynamic lighting and weather effects.

The core mechanic centers around an easy to learn, yet difficult to master one button trick system that allows you to chain together increasingly more elaborate trick combos to maximize the players speed and compete for high scores and distances. As players progress through 180 handcrafted goals, they'll rescue runaway llamas, grind along village rooftops, leap over terrifying chasms and outwit the mountain elders.

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Be amazed in how well exploration, astrophysics and platforming blend together as you travel across space to discover wonderful new worlds in this colorful combat-free game.

An untimely reboot of your navigation computer leaves you in search of your home world with limited fuel reserves. So get creative and let gravity be your guide to saving fuel. Also, don't be afraid to let your legs get some of that much-needed workout as you search for clues to get you closer to home.

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Amazing Frog? is a bit like GTA but you are a frog, who farts and lives in Swindon in the UK. There may be some falling over, shooting, zombies, cannons, driving, flying, sharks which all may lead to some farting. The game is made by two idiots, Gaz and Hal, who are Fayju and work out of their studio in Swindon, please refer to game to find our studio.

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The evil wizard, RNG, has stolen all of your hard-earned loot, and hidden it in countless treasure chests! To get it back, you must use your skill at opening treasure chests, to, well... open treasure chests. Open chests, get better loot, and equip it to increase your odds of getting better loot. Grind until you get the best loot!

All the fun of opening the chest, without having to run the dungeon!

Amazing Loot Grind is an experiment. The game attempts to strip the loot mechanic of the RPG genre to its bones, while still creating an engaging and enjoyable gameplay experience. Further, by subjecting players to a grind for loot through such a simple format, Amazing Loot Grind subtly forces players to reexamine what exactly they are doing as they pour hours into the slot machine mechanics that have come to represent the apex gameplay experience of our favorite games. Why play that fantasy MMO or that space shooter/RPG hybrid when you could get the same endgame experience with a few taps on your phone?

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American Steel is the bastard son of classic 80s run and gun shooters like Contra, Megaman, Gunstar Heroes et al. and 80s animated series like Heman, Centurions, MASK etc. It combines the fast, tough as nails gameplay of the former with the aesthetic and animations of the latter. All animations are completely hand-drawn frame by frame to adhere to that classic 80s look. Other gameplay features involve multiple upgrade-able protagonists and a home base where said upgrades can be done as well as missions chosen in a non-linear manner.

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Amirelia is a cooperative exploration and puzzle solving game that encourages players to discover a deeper meaning of friendship. The players control two characters that can interact with the world and each other in a number of ways, but the core mechanic focuses on the connection between the players. This connection, this bond between friends, is represented by a physical, rope-like link which can be used to manipulate objects.

In addition to this exploration of friendship, Amirelia also has a set of emotional targets it aims to hit beyond being fun and interesting. It seeks to evoke feelings of playfulness, affection, intimacy and connectedness through the various areas the players can explore. The world is designed to offer a different experience for every set of players, and can be played through multiple times with players trying out new paths that they didn't get to see the first time.

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Explore the past as you resolve the present in Anamorphine, a surreal adventure of rendered emotions. Journey into the mind of the main character, a young man in post-traumatic denial. His subconscious is pushing him to face his past or be consumed by it. Using first-person exploration with no language, cut scenes, UI or action button, Anamorphine conveys the narrative through environmental storytelling as you delve into physical and mental turmoil.

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Ananke is an adventure and exploration game set in the premises of a strange company.

Who are you? Why have you been sent to work there? And what is Exafan Consulting exactly doing?
Explore the company, talk the employees, find out what's going on... But try to be discrete or else snooping around could lead to dramatic consequences.

Ananke is an innovative narrative experience built around a first-person pixel art engine.

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Anarcute is the ultimate and cutest riot simulator ! Take control of a huge group of rioters and free the great capitals of the world like Tokyo or Paris from evil and sad forces. Everything is fair game when you're fighting in the name of cuteness and happiness so our cute little rioters won't hesitate to destroy everything on their path !

The player leads the crowd as one entity that keeps getting bigger and bigger as the rioters find and wake up sleeping friends in the city. With various objectives and a diversified gameplay, the players can choose their own style : discretion or utter destruction. The rioters will pick up objects along the way, be it phonebooths, carboard boxes or even police buses, these weapons will prove useful when fighting the brainwashed policemen that patrol the cities.

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Get ready for serious paleontology! Assemble dinosaurs your way and learn about their speculated background. Anatomically Incorrect Dinosaurs is rich with historic inaccuracy and groundbreaking science. It is your one-stop prehistoric edutainment tool, as well as evil-scientist simulator.

Features include:

Historic inaccuracy!
Nefarious science!
Prehistoric stuff!

Note: The game assumes that you have a webcam, but this is not a requirement.

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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who already forgot their time in middle school and those who remember it as the most horrible time of their life.
Through this experience, ANGST exposes the player to the reality of social anxiety. Its goal is to raise awareness to this condition and even help dealing with it through immersion in the game's mechanics.
The game is a graduation project at the joint program of the Department of Screen Based Arts at Bezalel and the Faculty for Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The game is available for download at this link:
avrahamy.itch.io/angstthegame

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Anomaly 1729 is a coming of age story set in an ever changing world. It centers around two characters, Ano and Yuler. Ano (the player character) is a newly self-aware robot wandering through a seemingly endless world of abstract structures and forces, with the strange ability to manipulate the world around him using a device that's a part of his arm. Yuler is the ruler of this complex, shifting environment, a being capable of reconfiguring the world, known as Phiohm, into any structure. Yuler created Ano as a servile automaton entity to help Yuler build Phiohm. However, at first the two cannot communicate with each other, and Ano must discover what he can do, why he was created, and what the intentions of Yuler and Phiohm are by exploring its inner workings, and changing a few things.

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"ANTYZ - A Time Odyssey" is an adventure puzzle game. Help the ants survive a sudden glacial era. You will travel back through the ages of time, charting a path towards the center of the earth. You will control the scouting ant who must dig the path and overcome the dangers threatening the ants nest. You will travel through various eras and more than 100 levels to discover the story of ANTYZ.